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The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into hundreds of ...

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 241 into law May 9, making Georgia the 13th state to legalize this practice. Human composting, known as terramation, transforms the body into soil through ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first time.

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Utah may soon be the 13th state to legalize “natural organic reduction,” or human composting, as an alternative, lower-cost and eco-friendly way to bury the dead. Sen. Jen Plumb, D-Salt Lake City, is ...